What is Windows Shell application programming interface?
Windows Shell APIs are the programming interfaces that support extensions of the system’s operational environment. For more information about the Windows Shell application programming interface, visit the following Web site. What might an attacker use the vulnerability to do? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same privileges as the user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer privileges on the system would be at less risk than users who operate with administrative privileges. How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability? To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to host a malicious Web site and then persuade a user to view that Web site. An attacker could also create an HTML e-mail message that has a specially crafted link, and then persuade a user to view the HTML e-mail message and then click the malicious link. What systems are primarily at risk from the vulnerability? Workstations and terminal servers are primarily at
